Sentence examples for qualified affirmative from inspiring English sources

Some authors have developed qualified affirmative responses to the first of these questions and thus claimed that groups can indeed be subjects (or bearers) of intentional states.

When she was asked if she did so to try to get a reduced sentence — she faces up to 15 years or up to 9 years plus restitution — she answered in the qualified affirmative.

The 2006 report, known as the Sachar Committee report, found that Muslims who should have qualified for affirmative action were not getting it, even though they were living in greater poverty than some groups that were getting the benefit.

The Bolsheviks classified the Mari as "backward," which qualified them for affirmative action and a brand new Latin alphabet.

The Kirkires are from the Varli tribe, which is listed in the Indian Constitution as a scheduled tribe, groups recognized as historically disadvantaged, isolated from the Indian mainstream, which qualifies them for affirmative action policies.

Follow-up questionnaires asked participants if they had any of the above symptoms, and affirmative answers were qualified as to their presence during "the last 4 weeks".

By relying instead on class rank, high school grades, and other performance-based measures, the authors wrote, universities could draw qualified students from diverse backgrounds without affirmative action.

To assess affirmative action, one must first form a concrete definition of "intelligence," or what constitutes a "qualification". A common argument against affirmative action argues that it would be unfair to replace the more non-minority "qualified" candidate with a less "qualified" minority candidate.

Affirmative action policies had stripped qualified white people of jobs, Mr. Huntley furthermore claimed.

Some quarters accused the NEP of being too heavy-handed in its approach towards affirmative action, maintaining it had "deprived qualified non-Malays of opportunities for higher education and job promotions" and forcing many non-Malays to emigrate instead.

The problem as they saw it was that most of affirmative action's beneficiaries were young well qualified men and women who were entering the job market for the first time.